CSB: When I was working in an immigration detention facility years ago, we had all sorts of whackjobs trying to come into Canada without proper documentation. They'd be detained by the federal government until they were identified properly and released, or sent to jail if they were criminals trying to flee crimes in their mother countries, or they'd be turned around after a quick hearing and sent back on the next flight out, etc..

One crazy Jamaican woman was detained for months at our facility while her paperwork/hearings were being processed and she did the weirdest shiat. One of which was peeing into a bowl and soaking her arm in it for hours to cure a rash that she had. What type of rash I don't know and don't want to know but the ointment she got after seeing a nurse was ignored...always had to use pee for some reason. You can imagine what she and her room smelled like. I believe she was referred to as 'the Voodoo lady' by the staff, and thank god when she was finally shiatcanned out of this country.

I really want to know where these beliefs start. Somewhere along the line, someone saw reeking cow piss and thought "I'm gonna drink that." From there, someone had to make a connection between guzzling waste products and not having cancer. I want to know who this person was and how often they were dropped on their head as a baby.

gopher321:CSB: When I was working in an immigration detention facility years ago, we had all sorts of whackjobs trying to come into Canada without proper documentation. They'd be detained by the federal government until they were identified properly and released, or sent to jail if they were criminals trying to flee crimes in their mother countries, or they'd be turned around after a quick hearing and sent back on the next flight out, etc..

One crazy Jamaican woman was detained for months at our facility while her paperwork/hearings were being processed and she did the weirdest shiat. One of which was peeing into a bowl and soaking her arm in it for hours to cure a rash that she had. What type of rash I don't know and don't want to know but the ointment she got after seeing a nurse was ignored...always had to use pee for some reason. You can imagine what she and her room smelled like. I believe she was referred to as 'the Voodoo lady' by the staff, and thank god when she was finally shiatcanned out of this country.

/end CSB

Voodoo Lady may be crazy, but urea is a well known therapeutic for many skin conditions. They even add the stuff to commercial skin creams. Link

Not unlike I'm gonna cut the tip of my dick off to please God. The fact that some people have mental illnesses that result in them hearing voices in their head that they think are God is one thing, the fact that they can convince other people to join in with their delusion and the following lunatic behaviour, is another altogether. The guy with the original idea at least has mental illness as a legitimate excuse. The rest don't.

There simply isn't enough people with a properly functioning brain in this world.

I like articles like this cause the Hindus I work with think all things Indian are better. I try to tell them the bell curve applies to all humanity, for every Einstein there is a Tickle, for every Ghandi there is an Aboo the cow piss drinker. Only reason there appears to be more smart guys from India in IT than average is simply that there are nearly 2 billion farkers on the sub continent.

gopher321:CSB: When I was working in an immigration detention facility years ago, we had all sorts of whackjobs trying to come into Canada without proper documentation. They'd be detained by the federal government until they were identified properly and released, or sent to jail if they were criminals trying to flee crimes in their mother countries, or they'd be turned around after a quick hearing and sent back on the next flight out, etc..

One crazy Jamaican woman was detained for months at our facility while her paperwork/hearings were being processed and she did the weirdest shiat. One of which was peeing into a bowl and soaking her arm in it for hours to cure a rash that she had. What type of rash I don't know and don't want to know but the ointment she got after seeing a nurse was ignored...always had to use pee for some reason. You can imagine what she and her room smelled like. I believe she was referred to as 'the Voodoo lady' by the staff, and thank god when she was finally shiatcanned out of this country.

/end CSB

Due to an odd series of miscommunications, cultural and linguistic, and involving gin, I have indirectly caused three people to drink their own urine as a cure for the common cold and they swore by it after experiencing the results first hand.

/Don't do it.//Don't plan on trying it.///Only found out 18 months after the fact.

bogmster:Due to an odd series of miscommunications, cultural and linguistic, and involving gin, I have indirectly caused three people to drink their own urine as a cure for the common cold and they swore by it after experiencing the results first hand.

/Don't do it.//Don't plan on trying it.///Only found out 18 months after the fact.

relaxitsjustme:Nidiot Not unlike I'm gonna cut the tip of my dick off to please God.

Don't be so quick to dismiss that one. Long before they identified HPV they knew that women whose partner was circumcised had lower rates of cervical cancer

Whole threads are dedicated to the pros and cons of circumcision. Not really my point as much as the difference of deciding to do things on the basis of medical evidence, as opposed to doing it based solely on the word of someone who hears voices in his head.

I read the headline and the first thought that popped into my mind was 'India'.

After Africa, they're about the dumbest idiots on the planet. Then again, after you have your cow pee, you can go down to the Rat Temple and drink out of bowls of spoiled milk right along with the rats as a chaser. Have your morning wash in the sewer that is the Ganges, just make sure to push the rotting human corpses and floating turds out of the way. You might want to stay upstream of the women washing their laundry in the sludge-like waters also.

SquiggsIN:Rik01: I read the headline and the first thought that popped into my mind was 'India'.

After Africa, they're about the dumbest idiots on the planet. Then again, after you have your cow pee, you can go down to the Rat Temple and drink out of bowls of spoiled milk right along with the rats as a chaser. Have your morning wash in the sewer that is the Ganges, just make sure to push the rotting human corpses and floating turds out of the way. You might want to stay upstream of the women washing their laundry in the sludge-like waters also.

Don't underestimate the areas of Asia that are driving animals like rhinos/sharks to extinction because they believe tusks, fins, and horns are a panacea of some sort.

Name an endangered animal, and some Chinese dude is convinced on of its organs will give him a boner.

Like lots of other Jewish (and African/Arab) traditions, that one almost certainly started in response to a health issue. With the foreskin attached, and before self-hygiene was routine, I can only imagine the infections that developed and the problems it created. They just figured out a down and dirty way to deal with the problem. There's a number of African and South American tribes which routinely use circumcision for the same reason, and they were in no way influenced by the Jewish religion.

It's fairly obvious when you look at the dietary laws which developed in and around the same time frame, the "tribe" was forbidden to eat those things which routinely caused sickness/death. Shell fish (especially when culled from warm waters), pork (trichinosis) and other forbidden items were all major health hazards of the day. Claiming that God didn't want you to eat it, was probably much easier than trying to use "science" to convince the gullible masses to stop eating those things making them sick. (Even if they really didn't understand the science of bacteria, virus's, etc. the smarter of the group certainly understood the concept of "cause and effect.")